Dialkylamino alkyl piperate and its hydrochloride



Patented Jan. 10, 1956 I E D A KYLAM NOA KyL PIPERATE AND ITS r. HYDROCHLQBID'E.

Martin E. Synerholm, Hastings on Hudson, N. Y., assignor to Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., a corporation of New York No Drawing. Application March 22, 1947, Serial No. 736,591

1 Claim. (Cl. 260-338) This invention relates to organic chemistry and that hydrogen chloride is no longer evolved. The has for its object the provision of organic commixture is cooled and an equal volume of petrolum pounds. More particularly, the invention is conether is added. The precipitated piperic acid cerned with the provision of a dialkylamino alkyl chloride is filtered and washed with petroleum piperate and its hydrochloride. The new com- 5 ether. pounds of the invention are characterized by be- Twenty-three and seven-tenths grams (0.1 ing non-toxic and having the power of producing mole) of piperic acid chloride and grams of local anaesthesia, and the hydrochloride, being diethylaminobutyl alcohol are mixed in 100 ml. highly soluble in water, is especially effective for of benzene. The mixture is warmed on the steam this purpose. The compounds of the invention 10 bath for one hour and cooled. Dry hydrogen are less toxic than cocaine and novocaine and chloride is passed in with cooling. The hydroare at least as effective as local anaesthetics. chloride of the c-diethyl aminobutylpiperate is The piperate of my invention may be reprefiltered and recrystallized from absolute alcohol. sented by the formula The pure ester hydrochloride melts at 161 to /C2H6 o- CH=CH-CH=CHCOCHzCHzCHzCHr-N\ H2C\ g 02H;

and the hydrochloride thereof by the formula 162 C. The hydrochloride is water soluble and 0211s o- GH=CHCH=OH-fiOCHr-CHr-CHzCHr-N o elm The preparation of the piperate of the invenmay be boiled in aqueous solution without decomtion will be described in connection with the position. preparation of diethylaminobutyl piperate which Tests have indicated that these compounds are is prepared by esterifying piperic acid with dimuch less toxic toward mice when injected intraethylaminobutyl alcohol. Piperic acid is obperitioneally than either novocaine (p-aminotained by refluxing for 6 hours 200 g. of piperine benzoyldiethyl-aminoethanol hydrochloride) or in 1200 ml. of per cent alcoholic potassium cocaine which are commonly used as local anaeshydroxide. One cooling, the solid potassium thetics. They are more than two and one-half piperate is filtered, washed with alcohol and taken times are effective as cocaine in the desensitizaup in water. The acid is liberated by acidification of the cornea of the eye of a guinea pig. tion with dilute mineral acid, e. g., sulfuric acid, I have also found that these compounds are effecfiltered and washed with water then with per tive when placed upon the tip of the tongue in cent alcohol to facilitate drying. 40 desensitizing this area. The compounds are of Twenty-two grams (0.1 mole) of the dried the same order of efiectiveness as cocaine in the piperic acid is suspended in ml. of dry benzene. eviscerated frog test.

Twenty grams of thionyl chloride are added and I claim: the mixture is warmed on the steam bath until A compound of the group represented by the all of the piperic acid has reacted as shown by formulae consisting of 0211! 0- OH=CHCH=CH-COCHr-CHa-OHaCHr-N H o and 02H! 0- CH=CHGH=CHCOOH:CHaCH:CHr-N l HzC\ 02H:

the formation of a clear solution and by the fact MARTIN E. SYNERHOLM.

(References on following page) 3 4 REFERENCES CITED Number Name Date I r 2251946 Lott Aug. 12 1941 The followmg references are of record in the file of this patent: 2,442,555 Synerholm June 1, 1948 UNIT TENTS OTHER REFERENCES ED STATES PA 6 Harvill et a1 Contrib Boyce Thompson Instit g i is Lott i f f Dec 2 ;?1937 April-June (1943" Pages 

